can i have sand in my tank with a bichir
- Thread starter Littleman707
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Yes, most bichir keepers recommend keeping them with sand as the substrate because they have been known to mistake gravel for food.
I use gravel for my bichirs, I hate sand. Sand would be fine to use, the only kind of bichir I had problems with with gravel were ornates I had one that would eat a mouth full of rocks with one pellet and spit out the rocks and if you ran by the tank when he was spitting them out I could see him getting scared and swallowing a stone. They are pretty good about not eating stones though, stress and taking off would be a more likely way of swallowing a stone than mistaking it for food.
Sand is what I use. Gravel can be ingested and if you Bichir does ingest it, then you're really up the creek...